For the third time in Noah’s young life (he’s 9 yrs.old), he has broken his arm. The first time was at daycare where he fell off the monkey bars (left arm). The second time was two years ago when he fell off the monkey bars while he was at the after-school care program at school (right arm). Yesterday he was playing at recess and fell (left arm). I might also mention that Owen, his younger brother, also broke his arm at daycare.
The first two times the caregivers simply called Jason and he picked him up and took him to the hospital. Yesterday an ambulance was called and the principal rode with him to the hospital while Alisa and Jason (Mom & Dad) were en route.
He is such a little trooper. The nurse said, “On a scale from one to ten with one being a paper cut and ten being the worst pain you have ever felt, what number would say describes how much you hurt?” After he thought about it for a few seconds, he said, “Nine and three quarters.” I guess he remembered how much his arms had hurt when previously broken. He had also already been given morphine by the EMT's and that accounts for the missing quarter.
The way the community reacted was unbelievable! Of course, the news spread throughout the school with the speed of light. Jason and Alisa are very nice, sociable people who have lot of friends and have many acquaintances. Owen had a baseball game last night and Noah’s Recreation League team also had a game at the same time. After his arm was put in a temporary splint (the hard cast will be put on in a few days), he wanted to come to the park to watch his team play. He was so upset because he thought he was letting his team down. That’s the kind of kid he is. He was still glassy-eyed from the pain killers he had been given when they arrived. I would say that more than half the people in the park came over to see how he was and to wish him well.
Jason just called and said he was doing okay this morning. Noah’s traveling team has a tournament this weekend, and he wants to go watch them play this afternoon.
Jason said that if he had to break his arm three times, he was glad it happened when he was with people other than family. If not, he and/or Alisa could have probably been reported for child abuse.
When at the hospital, they asked the doctor if there is a physical reason why he seems to break bones as often as he has. The doctor had he couldn’t see anything that would cause it. Maybe when he goes to the orthopedist he will check him out just to be sure.
Jason has put the orthopedist on speed dial.
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